When comparing Messenger vs Hike, the Slant community recommends Messenger for most people. In the question“What are the best messaging apps for Android?”Messenger is ranked 14th while Hike is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose Messenger is:

Pro

Lots of great features

Pro

Without data media sharing option within 100m

Pro

Great sticker system

A very fast sticker suggestion based on key words typed. This helps to send relevant stickers quickly. Also when we press upon a sticker it opens a quick reply sticker option.

Pro

Night-mode

Hike has an app theme & auto night mode(8pm-6am) inside to reduce strain on eye while texting at night.

Pro

Has a timeline

It has a timeline(photo + text), which is similar to BBM.

Pro

Photo editing feature

It has a selfie edit feature like Instagram, helps with editing selfies for profile photos & photo statuses.

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Cons

Con

Lack of privacy

Messenger is owned by Facebook. Based on their privacy policy, this means that any information you provide (including messages sent) are used by Facebook to profile you and sell access to your data to advertisers.

Con

Lack of end-to-end encryption

Secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are only supported in one-to-one messages, and are not enabled by default, and the encryption has not been verified independently.

Con

No video messages

Currently there is no way to send video messages using Messenger.

Con

Security of user information

First of all, this is closed source software. It also lacks-end-to-end encryption. In today's time, irrespective of every other feature, encryption is the most important one. Because without it, rest of the features become risky to use and thus meaningless.

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